winter past

There is an electric fan in the room, and some candlelight is scattered. Several white candles of different lengths are either placed in broken plates or bowls, or placed on the ground or on the edge of some bamboo mats.There are also some brightly colored scented candles in small glass cups, with a strong smell of artificial fragrance, and the small cups have been burned until there is only a thin layer of shiny wax.The pungent sour smell in the room mixed with the smell of scented candles was extremely choking.The electric fan that changes the wind direction from time to time blows the candles to and fro, and blows the strange smell in the room around.

From time to time, there was a smell of rotten vegetable leaves from the place where the stove and cupboards were located. Zhao You picked up a small dish with half a candle on it and shone there.A small window behind the stove was half open, and a wire drilled in from the outside. One end of the wire was connected to a plug-in board, and the plug-in board was placed on the stove. Eight mobile phones were lined up. Charge it with the power strip.

There are a lot of plastic bottles piled up under the stove, and there are many snakeskin bags hanging on the wall next to the cupboard. Each bag is painted with words, some with "big" and some with "2". , there is a bag with a big "Wu" painted on it.There were cans of beer in the cupboard and batteries of various sizes.

Xiaoman followed, pointed out to the neighbor on the east side of No. 64, and then pointed to the nails on the wall. After looking around, he said, "There were none before."

Zhao You looked towards the place where a roll of door curtain hung, the two exchanged glances, and walked to the inner room behind the door curtain.As soon as Xiaoman entered, he said with emotion: "This place has also changed a lot."

That's right, Zhao You still remembers that morning when he and Dai Rou went into the back room to inspect Weng Qing's body. There was no furniture, but it was clean and decent. There was a wooden bed in the middle of the back room, which was originally placed near the end of the bed. A zippered simple wardrobe, a low cabinet by the bed, and a chest of drawers in the room are all missing.The simple wardrobe was replaced by a green shared bicycle and a fan that was blowing air outside. In the place where the chest of drawers was placed was a shopping trolley that can be seen everywhere in large supermarkets. It was full of various non-woven shopping bags. Bags in bags filled a cart full.

The bedside table was vacated, and a dome camping tent was built next to the bed. The zipper door was opened, and a roll of sleeping bags was spread outside. This tent also smelled of rotten vegetable leaves.

A bamboo mat was spread on the wooden bed, the windows were open, and only hot air came in from outside, making the room even more stuffy and smelly, with a heavy smell of meat.There were a few long, crumpled towels hanging in the toilet, a bag of washing powder on the sink, and a large bar of well-used soap.There are a lot of bucket water bottles full of water piled up next to the toilet.A gecko crawls across the wall.There are some small flying insects gathered near the drain on the ground.

Standing in the toilet, Xiaoman looked at the wooden bed, and asked Zhao You: "The day Weng Qing's body was found, did you come here?"

Zhao You stood at the door of the toilet, slapped a mosquito to death, looked at the wooden bed, and said: "At that time, there was a circle of people outside, the scene at the door was destroyed, and there was no dragging in the yard." There are no traces of fighting at home."

He also said: "On the body of the corpse, there is only a trace of skin suturing that was obviously done not long ago, there are no scars on the face, no bruises on the body, no strangulation marks on the neck, and the wrists and ankles have not been bound. There are no traces, the soles of the feet are clean, there are no wounds, and the scalp is intact."

Xiaoman pointed to the back of his head.Zhao You walked to a wall next to the roller blind, stood against the base of the wall, and looked into the outer room through the gap of the roller blind. From this angle, he could see the entrance.

Zhao Youdao: "Cao Lv returned to Huangguozi Village and found that No. 64 was occupied by another single mother with a boy."

Xiaoman went on to say: "On May 5th, he happened to be in the village. I don't know why he stayed until late at night. When Weng Qing returned to the village at night, he saw her, followed her, attacked her while there was no one around, and took her away. Entered No. 28, or followed up No. 64 all the way, found no one else in the house, attacked her, took her into the house to dispose of the body.

"Then the question is, does he know that Weng Qing lives at No. 64? Why did he stay in the village so late that night? Was he waiting for Weng Qing? How did he know what Weng Qing looked like? If people in the village They all know him and know that he is Fu Weiqiang who came back from Nanjing, so the villagers should have some impression of him staying in the village so late. In order to wait for Weng Qing? Why...is it Weng Qing? Because she lives in No. 64, he wants to see her? Did he plan to kill her? "

Zhao You turned to look at Xiao Man, and said, "It depends on the confessions of the villagers. Has he asked them about No. 64? He has been back to the village a few times, and what kind of clothes he always wears."

Xiaoman came out of the toilet at this time, stood by the tent, lit a cigarette, and said: "After killing Weng Qing, the antiseptic liquid needed to dispose of the corpse, dig out the internal organs, and suture the wound Tools...it doesn't look like there are any in this house, right? There are also internal organs, how did he take them away?"

Zhao You said, "There is another possibility."

Xiao Man nodded, eyes lowered, and continued: "He learned from the villagers that the owner of No. 64 didn't come home often, and there was often no one in the house, so he sneaked into this house to cherish the memory of the past, and remember his mother. Well... he stayed until late at night."

Zhao Youdao: "Unknowingly, it's late at night."

Xiao Man said: "Weng Qing came home, and he killed her."

Xiaoman turned around and walked out of the back room, and walked to the gate.Zhao You stood by the door, Xiaoman pretended to enter the house, saw Zhao You, and said: "After Weng Qing entered the door, he found this unexpected visitor. He thought there was a thief in the house. He wanted to call, but he tried to stop him."

"That will definitely leave traces of struggle." Zhao You said, "Weng Qing is very famous among this generation of homeless people, and..."

Xiaoman took a puff of cigarette and said, "She stole things, and the person who helped her sell the stolen goods should be the fifth child." He looked at Zhao You, Zhao You blew out the candle in his hand, his eyes suddenly darkened, and he couldn't help it for a while. After seeing Xiaoman in front of him clearly, he could only hear Xiaoman's voice: "I thought you were the fifth child, or someone else, it was so dark that I couldn't see the face clearly, I saw you, He also greeted you to enter the back room."

Zhao You's eyes gradually adapted to the darkness, Xiao Man passed by him and walked towards the back room, Zhao You followed.Entering the back room, and walking to the wooden bed, Xiaoman made a gesture to take off his clothes and kicked off his high heels: "You attacked me while my back was facing you."

Xiaoman sat on the bed.Zhao You stood by the bed and looked at him, pointing to the toilet: "Or in the toilet."

Xiaoman nodded: "The corpse was disposed of in the toilet."

"I cut up your body and took out your internal organs," Zhao You said, "then you were stitched up, washed, and put you on the bed."

Xiaoman asked, "How tall is Cao Lv?" He said, "Because Lin Mindong works in the funeral home all the year round, he often needs to carry corpses, so he can fully handle the weight of the dead."

Zhao You said: "It is said that he is 1.8 meters three, not thin, and because of the nature of his work, he often needs to operate large machines for washing floors and carpets, and carry the dead, and it should not be a problem for him to be a female or an old man."

Xiaoman said: "As for the smell of the embalming fluid, it will be stained with the smell after being with the corpse for a long time. If the stomach and intestines are dug out immediately after the murder, the smell of the corpse is actually very small. Most of the time, the smell of the corpse is in the stomach and intestines. As a result of internal bacterial growth, funeral home workers and cleaning staff often need to be exposed to various chemicals, even if they have a strange smell, colleagues will not make a fuss if they smell it."

Xiaoman lowered his head and smoked.Zhao You said again: "Dai Rou found a mobile phone in the blue sky cleaning car that Cao Lv often drove, and it contained those weird videos that Xiao Yin and the others saw on the Internet before."

"You can check the filming time of the video of spewing rat poison in the internal organs." Xiaoman said, "Cao Lv's split personality shouldn't be using that car as his stronghold?"

"I don't know what was found at Xingji. Dai Rou also said that the car should be the place where Yumeng hid the corpse."

Xiao Man grabbed her long hair a few times, raised her eyes to look at Zhao You, and said, "What do you mean by split personality?"

"The book says that this is an escape mechanism. According to the book, the memories and information obtained between the split personalities are not shared. If Cao Lv is the master personality, he will be in a deep sleep when the personality is split. state, which is what Dr. Chen called 'fragments'."

Xiaoman took out his mobile phone and threw it to Zhao You, saying, "I found some medical records of Cao Lu."

Zhao You picked it up and saw that they were all photos taken.Zhao You gave Xiaoman the phone, sat on the bed, and said, "I found some files about Fu Weiqiang."

Zhao You zoomed in on the photos and looked at them.Xiao Man also looked down at his phone.

In one of Cao Lv's medical records, Chen Wan'er recorded: During this hypnosis, the patient revealed that he hopes that all elderly people will have a good death and a good result, and that all mothers love their children and all girls All have a happy ending.Specifically, it can be seen from the audio recordings of the consultation that the patient had a natural fear of women because of his childhood experience. As an adult, the sudden death of his elderly adoptive father dealt a considerable blow to him.We can think of these elements as switches that trigger his psychological escape mechanism.The personality of Ada appeared whenever he faced the elderly and women who he felt needed to be treated properly.Note: Patient is unaware of Ada's existence.

Zhao You touched his nose: "Is Boss Wang called Wang Da?"

Xiao Man said: "Maybe for Cao Lv, Ada represents a stronger and more powerful possibility."

Zhao You continued to look at the photos taken by Xiaoman.Chen Wan'er also recorded Ada's personal characteristics in detail: claiming to be 1.8 meters tall, self-confessed that Kong Wu is strong, can crush a cock with one hand, hates small animals, despises the protagonist Cao Lv, thinks he is a wimp, what do you want to do? He dared not do anything, and often played pranks on Cao Lv. In order to "frighten" him, Ada didn't like to talk about emotional topics with the psychiatrist. He liked to tell stories.

Zhao You propped his cheeks and said, "How old is this Ada? Where did he study? Have he made friends? What kind of people are his parents?"

Xiao Man said: "You really treat him as a person to investigate?"

"If it's really a split personality, isn't he another person?"

Xiao Man responded and said, "Ada should not only be a man with well-developed limbs, but judging from his modus operandi, he is also very thoughtful and has a certain anti-investigation ability. Every time he commits a crime, he should have planned in advance. "

Zhao Youdao: "Where did he learn the knowledge of anatomy, and where did he learn the methods of anti-investigation? Will people with split personalities share the intelligence and logical thinking ability of the main personality? In that case, he is still another person." Is Cao Lu really ignorant of all this? Then why does Ada know of his existence, but Cao Lu does not know of Ada's existence?"

Xiaoman returned the phone to Zhao You, and said, "When I was in Hongfeng Hospital, a patient who lived next to me asked me, and he said, do you know that you often sleepwalk at night. I said, I know." , because sometimes when I wake up, I find that I am not on the hospital bed, sometimes in the toilet, sometimes on the roof. It is very strange. To go to the roof of our building, I must pass the nurse station. The nurse station is on duty 24 hours a day. Moreover, the door to the roof is locked all year round, and you have to pry it to unlock it.

"I don't know how I avoided the nurse's eyes and ears, and how I opened the door lock. Then I said, I often see you sleepwalking too. The patient said, don't talk nonsense, how can I sleepwalk I said, when you woke up, you found that you were not where you were when you fell asleep. He said, yes, but I am not sleepwalking. He said, I am a split personality. He said, the doctor told me Yes, there is another person in my body. This person will get up and move while I am asleep. Sometimes he wants to come out and move, so he will force me to sleep. Sometimes I don’t want to face the world anymore, and he will also Will take the opportunity to seize control of my body. The doctor said, maybe one day I will not be me. I will completely disappear.

"He also said, I think what the doctor said was wrong, maybe this body belonged to another person in my body from the beginning, I didn't exist in the first place, there is a me in this world somehow, my My eyesight is still poor, and I fell in love with such a body, no matter what, having a body is better than not having a body, and the original owner of this body and I have been fighting with each other, competing for this body."

Xiaoman licked his lips, scratched the bamboo mat under his body, and lowered his eyes: "I asked him, what is the difference between split personality and sleepwalking? Isn't it because we don't know what we are doing?"

Zhao Youdao: "If you have a split personality, maybe after you fell asleep, you couldn't hide from the nurse and pry the door lock to go to the rooftop?"

Xiao Man fluttered his eyelashes up and down, scratched the center of his brows, laughed, and said, "He said that he took sleeping pills for sleepwalking, perphenazine and chlorpromazine for split personality, and I haven't shit for three days. Hey, can you give me a few of your sleeping pills? I don’t think this body is good, if I take a few more sleeping pills, I’ll sleep to death, and I don’t want this body.”

Zhao You sat leaning against Xiaoman and stopped looking at his phone.He looked at Xiaoman.

The story is over, the memories are gone, and Xiaoman is speechless.He held the cigarette in one hand, raised the other hand, and put it near his mouth. He lightly bit his fingernails.

His fingernails are indeed a little long.Zhao You took out a bunch of keys, found the nail clippers hanging on it, and took Xiaoman's hand.When Xiao Man saw him, he retracted his hand, and then trembled.Zhao You pulled his hand forward and said softly: "Don't move around, you will cut the flesh."

He carefully cut Xiaoman's nails.He lowered his head, not daring to look around, he cut an arc along Xiaoman's fingers, the nails flew out, Zhao You raised his head, and his gaze fell into Xiaoman's eyes.His eyes are so dark, like black holes, the mystery of the universe that humans have not been able to fully solve until now, like caves, attracting people to go in and find out, like dark clouds, absorbing all the moisture in the air, and about to rain heavy rain.It's too stuffy, too smelly, and too hot, and the house really needs a heavy rain that can wash everything away.Zhao You said, "If only it rained..."

Xiaoman said: "It should be down."

"really?"

What if the rain doesn't fall again, Zhao You's breathing follows Xiao Man's, the air between the two is almost scorching hot, and the whole body feels like it's about to burn.What if this rain came down and the curtain of rain parted them?Zhao You's eyes couldn't help chasing Xiao Man's eyes, ups and downs, ups and downs, for fear that he would disappear behind the heavy rain.He chased so closely that his forehead and Xiaoman's forehead collided together. He wanted to kiss Xiaoman very much, and he knew that this was definitely a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.But look at their current situation, the crime scene, the place where homeless people live, this time this place is far more than unromantic, more than ordinary, this can be said to be the place where Xiaoman's nightmare began.

Just when Zhao You was still hesitating, Xiaoman kissed him when his lips warmed up.Zhao You blinked, unable to say anything, and all his miscellaneous thoughts were thrown away by him.He also kissed Xiaoman.

Xiaoman leaned back and said, "I had a feeling just now that if I miss this opportunity, I might lose it."

Zhao You hurriedly said, "No, how could it be?"

Xiaoman shook his head and looked at Zhao You: "I don't know what to say, I don't want to disappoint you, I just think just now, at that moment... it seems that only that moment is the most important." Xiaoman lowered his head again, "It seems that there is too much disrespect for the dead. They died here... A child was greatly affected by the case that happened here. If I had given him an explanation ten years ago, wouldn't these things happen now? I haven't been able to give anyone an explanation, what am I still trying to get here...I don't know, Zhao You, I'm sorry...I'm quite confused right now..."

Zhao You held Xiaoman's hand and continued to cut his nails without saying a word.He has too much to say and do, he wants to comfort Xiaoman, he wants to kiss him again, he can't think of what to say or do first.

Xiaoman asked him: "What are you thinking? Don't you want to say something?"

Zhao You raised his eyes and looked at him: "I'm thinking about a lot of things, mainly thinking about some things that the Anti-Pornography and Anti-illegal Affairs Bureau will rush in and arrest me as soon as they know about it. It's the kind of plot where two hundred words are omitted..."

Xiaoman looked at him angrily and amusedly, put his hands on his knees, and said in a low voice: "Three hundred words will be omitted...?"

Zhao You thought for a while and said, "Five hundred words will be omitted..."

Suddenly, Xiao Man's face lit up, and a ray of blue light came in from the window. It was dawn before they knew it. Both of them were a little surprised, and looked outside at the same time.They pushed open the painted wooden window. The fifth child stood in the yard smoking a cigarette and waved to them. A few homeless men squatted beside him.Everyone looked up at the sun.